Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics
Open Access

ISSN: 0974-276X

Helmut E. Meyer

Helmut E. Meyer

Germany

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  • Research Article
    Adjusted Confidence Intervals for the Expression Change of Proteins Observed in 2-Dimensional Difference Gel Electrophoresis
    Author(s): Klaus Jung, Gereon Poschmann, Katharina Podwojski, Martin Eisenacher, Michael Kohl, Kathy Pfeiffer, Helmut E. Meyer, Kai Stühler and Christian Stephan Klaus Jung, Gereon Poschmann, Katharina Podwojski, Martin Eisenacher, Michael Kohl, Kathy Pfeiffer, Helmut E. Meyer, Kai Stühler and Christian Stephan

    Differential proteome analyses focus on the detection and quantification of expression changes between samples from different biological groups. While the significance of an expression change is detected by some statistical test, the strength of an expression change is usually quantified by some ratio estimate, e.g. the ‘fold change’. Due to its quantitative character, the fold change is more intuitively for biologists than the decision of a statistical test. However, strong expression changes are often misleading if this change is not significant. For this reason, we propose the employment of confidence intervals, adjusted for multiple hypotheses testing, which naturally comprise both, test decision and quantification. The adjusted confidence intervals can be used for making test decisions under the control of error rates typically considered in multiple .. View More»
    DOI: 10.4172/jpb.1000064

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